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equality

//ɪˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

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Forms

Plural
equalities

Definitions

  1. 1.The fact of being equal.

    • The most powerful of these general ideas which have shaped political development in recent times is of course the ideal of material equality.
  2. 2.The fact of being equal, of having the same value.

  3. 3.The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.

    • Jefferson was talking about the equality of natural human rights. You have freedom, and I have freedom. You and I have equal rights to freedom.

Frequency

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Rare· #4137

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General reading & writing
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Academic
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Literature
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Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French equalité (modern French égalité), from Latin aequālitās, aequālitātem.

Doublet of equity.

By surface analysis, equal + -ity

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